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Kathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts.

Kathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. This week's panellists are Pippa Greenwood, Christine Walkden and James Wong, answering questions from a virtual audience.

Our green-fingered experts kick off the show with a seasonally appropriate discussion around those crunchy delights - apples! They also offer one listener some colourful design ideas for her shared space and reflect on the special gardening tools they've inherited from significant figures in their lives.

Away from the virtual theatre, Juliet Sargeant visits the newly renovated One Garden Brighton at Stanmer Park and Matthew Wilson effuses about his favourite tree - an iconic feature of the British landscape, the English Oak, Quercus robur.

Producer - Hannah Newton
Assistant Producer - Bethany Hocken

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42 minutes

Plant List

Q – If you had a to pick an apple according to its name, what would it be and why?

(1 minutes 4 seconds) 


Christine –

‘Chelmsford Wonder’


Pippa –

‘D¾±²õ³¦´Ç±¹±ð°ù²â’


James –

‘Red Love’


Kathy –

‘Ribston Pippin’

‘Golden Delicious’ 


Q – When do you plant Sweet peas? Are there any advantages to planting them out early?

(2 minutes 4 seconds) 


Q – I’m having very little success growing ‘Beetroot’ in my raised bed – am I doing anything wrong?

(4 minutes 57 seconds) 


Q – I have a Skimmia japonica growing in my garden. I’ve never pruned it and it is now far too big. How and when would it be best to cut it back?Ìý

(6 minutes 36 seconds) 


Q – Where is the best place to grow Cyclamens?Ìý

(9 minutes 22 seconds)


Feature – Juliet Sargeant visits the newly renovated One Garden Brighton at Stanmer Park

(13 minutes 17 seconds)


Q – My Echeveria has become very leggy and is beginning to topple over - what is happening?

(16 minutes 32 seconds) 


Q – I always try and grow something unusual every year. This time, I have gone for an Eremurus robustus. What suggestions do the panel have for how to make this grow best?

(22 minutes 51 seconds)


James –

Kniphofia, Red-hot poker

Q – What advice do the panel have for planting on a small development of around 40 houses? We would like a stunning display, with impact all year round, and a need to care for the plants as little as possible.

(27 minutes) 


Christine –

Cornus alba

Cornus aureus

Cornus, ‘F±ô²¹±¹¾±°ù²¹³¾±ð²¹â€™

Salix alba

Braetensis

Cyclamen hederifolium

Crocus

Scilla

Puschkinia

Iris sibirica


James –

Hydrangea

Groundcover rose, ‘Rosa cutie pie’


Pippa –

Daffodil

Snowdrop

Crocus

Hollyhock

Columbine


Feature – Matthew Wilson effuses about his favourite tree, an iconic feature of the British landscape, the English Oak, Quercus robur.

(32 minutes 38 seconds) 


Q – Help! I’ve managed to sprout a Mango tree. Any advice on how to keep my wonderful new tree alive will be greatly received.

(35 minutes 6 seconds) 


James –

Photinia, ‘Red Robin’


Q – Have the panel ever inherited a gardening tool that they love? Do they have a particular favourite?

(38 minutes 57 seconds)

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